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by ericabiz 10y ago
If you never want Touch ID to work, you can just replace the home button in the phone. It's a security feature from Apple--a new home button will never work with Touch ID again. It's not too difficult to swap a home button yoursel
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The articles and comments indicate that his posting of schematics appears to be the concern, not his ranting about Apple or his repairing of said devices. As a repair shop owner, this is some serious BS. After watching several hours of vide
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> But the biggest is that the people are truly interested in intellectual matters in a way that was not extant in the other places I've lived. That seems like it used to be true more than it is now. I live in Austin, and you can&#x2
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If you decide to do this too, consider supporting the EFF at the same time: https://supporters.eff.org/shop/laptop-camera-cover-set I have one of these on my computer and it works great. They are removable for the occa
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by ericabiz 10y ago
As a buyer, I could still win a claim against you for bad shipping, though. We run two repair shops where we buy a LOT of parts on eBay, and the way some people ship things is atrocious. We've received laptop keyboards with keys hangin
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by ericabiz 10y ago
I wrote about this back in 2013 (and made it to the front page of HN): "Scammed By Amazon’s 'A-to-Z Guarantee'" https://medium.com/this-happened-to-me/scammed-by-amazons-a-... tl;dr I sold my old ce
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I don't know the answer to 1 or 3 because I'm not a FB insider, but I can answer #2 for you: > 2) Where do these click/like farms come from, and what's in it for them? All you have to do is go on Fiverr and see people
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by ericabiz 10y ago
You might find this article interesting: http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/08/28/it-s-time-f... > The company’s new foundation also ended nearly all of its donations to anti-LGBT organization
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by ericabiz 10y ago
There are already several replacements. Fare, Get Me, Fasten, and a new non-profit called Ride Austin are all open (Ride Austin in limited beta, the others full speed ahead.) There's also Wingz if you want to pre-book airport rides. Th
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> the card company keeps the entire fee Not exactly--there are companies taking a bite out of the fees all the way down. I run two retail stores, and after initially using Square (which charges a 2.75% flat fee), we switched to a merchan
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I flew out of the Austin airport 2 weeks ago, and used Wingz to get a driver to drive us there. He gave me his cell # and I just texted him for the ride back home when we got back last week, and paid cash. Super easy. I think it's pret
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by ericabiz 10y ago
Oh, me neither. But today there are plenty of companies in the smart thermostat game. A quick Amazon search shows 8 at a glance, only one of which is a Nest.
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The article says Nest may be up for sale, which would make sense. I have to think that the buyer would probably buy Nest for the underlying technology and not the brand at this point, however. I have an original Nest thermostat but would ne
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by ericabiz 10y ago
I would miss you! I like your Facebook updates and silly jokes and pictures of your family. I always read your stuff there. I know we don't get to see each other in person much, but know that there are people out there who care!
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by ericabiz 10y ago
It's not that simple when it's a business calling, though. Easy example: I run a repair shop. If you drop off a computer or game console, we ask for your phone number and call you when it's done. We get a LOT of people who do
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Interesting. I'm on AT&T Gigabit (Google Fiber competitor here in Austin) and I got 660Mbit on fast.com (Windows 10 desktop directly connected via Ethernet.) A MacBook Pro laptop with Wifi (802.11ac) connected a few rooms away show
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by ericabiz 10y ago
As far as I can tell, this doesn't include SSDs. Spinning drive shipments are down -- I say GOOD RIDDANCE! I run a repair shop, and one of the top computer repairs we do is to upgrade a spinning disk to a SSD. A 240GB SSD runs $60-$65
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Effectiveness of this varies by state or region. For instance, when I was in the Bay Area 10 years ago and looked into this, PG&E would let your electricity bill get to 0, but wouldn't let you go into rebate territory. They just wo
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From what I can tell, our customers generally fall into 2 camps: 1) Upgrade software whenever it's available and their phone prompts them or 2) Have been burned by an update or don't trust them for some reason, and almost never up
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Yes, many places will buy them. They pay more if the LCD is still intact because they're easier to refurbish.
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by ericabiz 10y ago
Heh, whenever I hear "calibrate the screen" I assume you either work at an Apple Store or have been to one recently, as that seems to be their favorite line. Calibration is only necessary on a glass-only repair; it realigns the di
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by ericabiz 10y ago
Nah, Apple will replace it for you - $79, last I heard. If you open up the phone, the battery says "Replacement by Authorized Service Provider Only" (or something similar--I'm quoting from memory here.)
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by ericabiz 10y ago
If they still have that 5, it's pretty cheap and quick to do a battery replacement (we charge $49 -- many shops charge similarly.) Should bring it back to life just like new. if nothing else, I think it would be worth doing just to hav
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by ericabiz 10y ago
Sure :) http://www.1uprepairs.com - we are based out of Austin, TX. Email is in my profile if you need to reach me, or you can call our store during business hours.
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2-3 years is average, depending on how much you use your phone. Battery replacements are cheap (we charge $49 for the 5 series right now) and quick to do. Easiest way to know you need a battery replacement: Your phone gets to 40% or 20% and
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No, Apple doesn't sell parts, though it would be nice if they did. The main way screens appear in the repair business is from companies in China that buy back screens with broken glass but functional LCD. They then replace the glass wi
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iPad Air 1 is $120 to fix; newer ones are $260. The reason for the jump is that Apple moved to bonded technology (backlight, LCD, digitizer, glass is all one piece bonded from the factory) in the newer iPad Airs, so the parts are more expen
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All depends on the cost of parts. Part cost is very low right now...I advise people to get it fixed ASAP if they have the money! You never know what it will do--part cost bounces around like the stock market. Last year it bounced really hig
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by ericabiz 10y ago
I run a repair shop. We've repaired over 3,000 Apple devices for customers. We are always chatting with our customers, so we get a ton of feedback from them about what they're doing with their phones. We hear a few things consiste
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by ericabiz 10y ago
Sure, if you want a book that's really unconventional, I like "How to Get Rich" by Felix Dennis. He was worth something like $500 million when he wrote it, a college dropout--probably someone you've never heard of, but y

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